…Global warming, that is. Or at least I can’t, personally. I’ve taken one too many science classes about the environment to even consider that global warming doesn’t exist.
However.
There are people out there that do not believe global warming is happening.
This post is for them, about what they say, who they are and how on earth they think that global warming isn’t a real phenomenon.
(Actually, I’ll be answering everything but the last one…that one is a mystery but I have my suspicions….)
http://www.gifsoup.com/view/1929105/fox-licking-window.html
Yup.
In any case, I found a fabulous website that lists both the reasons that global warming deniers cite for global warming not existing/not being an issue, here are a few gems :
#61: Scientists can’t even predict weather.
Reality check: Weather and climate are different; climate predictions do not need weather detail.
#67: The greenhouse effect has been falsified.
Reality check: The greenhouse effect is standard physics and has been confirmed by observations.
#134 Breathing contributes to CO2 buildup.
Reality check: By breathing out we are only returning the air to the same CO2 that existed before.
Feel free to read all 173 reasons here:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php
I furthered my search to see just who was making these arguments and I found this little gem courtesy of The Huffington Post; which cites that currently only 57% of Americans believe that global warming really exists.
Scary.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/most-dangerous-global-war_n_330614.html
You’ll see some unfortunately familiar faces in the corresponding slide show.
http://www.americantimes.org/blog/2012/01/31/sarah-palin-wants-back-into-the-spotlight-but-only-on-the-losing-side/
Gosh darn scary.
Despite the shivers of contempt flowing down my spine at the likes of Palin’s Alaskan crazy mug, I soldiered on with my research. Turns out, there was a surprise guest in the global warming denier line-up:
Michael Crichton!
http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/25/newt-in-1996-lets-build-a-real-jurassic-park-have-sex-in-space/
YES, the very man who brought us Jurassic Park. He doesn’t believe that global warming exists and he’s done what every best-selling author has done when they have feelings.
He wrote a book about it. This book was entitled “State of Fear.” Crichton discusses the environment in this article with ABC News:
Michael Crichton Takes on Global Warming
Ta da. From the man who wrote a whole book about a virus strain wiping out human kind. No global warming for him, folks.
http://harvardmedicine.hms.harvard.edu/bulletin/spring2009/lostworld.php